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NITE TATES JOHN A. RESCH, OF JERSEY CITY NEYV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE EUREKA HINGE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,784, dated September 22, 1885. Am lication filed June 22, 1855. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN REscH, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hinges for Inside Blinds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings-forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation ofthe lower parts of a window casing and blinds to which my improved hinges have been applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the blinds, the window-eas ing being shown in section and with parts broken away.

The object of this invention is to provide hinges for inside blinds, constructed in such a manner that the blinds,when folded together, can be turned back against the wall of the room at the sides of the window.

The invention consists in the hinges made with their plates of unequal width and bent outward or from each other at right angles, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim. 1

A represents the casing of a window, and B the inside blinds. Each of the blinds B is I made in two partshinged to each other at their adjacent edges, so that they can be folded together, as shown at the left-hand part of Figs. 1 and 2.

The outer edges of the outer parts of the blinds B are connected with the window-casing A by hinges, the inner plates, G, of which are formed with the short straight portions 0 and the angular portions 0, to adapt them to be attached to the outer sides of the side bars of the blinds B. The outer plates, D, of the hinges are formed with the straight portions d and the angular portions (2, to adapt them to 1 the part c of the inner Vith hin es constructed as herein described b the blinds B can be closed squarely, as shown at the right-hand parts of Figs. 1 and 2, and in opening the blinds the inner parts of the said blinds can be folded upon the outer parts, and the two parts can be turned back together against the wall of the room, as illustrated at the left-hand parts of Figs. 1 and 2. \Vith this construction the inner wall of the room can be placed close to the outer wall, so that the space usually wasted in setting the inner wall at such a distance from the outer wall as to afford space to form boxes to receive the blinds B, when their two parts are folded together and turned at right angles with the plane of the window, will be saved, and the size of the room will be increased to that amount.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an improved article of manufacture, a hinge for inside blinds, consisting of the inner plate, 0, having the straight portion 0 and the angular apertured portion 0, and the plate D, having the straight portion at and the apertured angular portion d, the portion cl of the plate D being so much wider than the portion 0 of plate 0 that the distance between the angles of the said plates will be equal to the frame of the blinds, a; set forth.

JOHN A. RESOH.

Vitnesses:

J Anus T. GRAHAM, C. Snnowrck. 

